A review by balthazarlawson
The Blood Road by Stuart MacBride

4.0

Logan McRae is back working in Professional Standards. Also back is a dead detective who appears to have died a second time. Then there is the suicide of another detective who McRae has been trying to get in touch with but with little luck. Throw in a staff shortage and a growing list of missing children and McRae finds himself investigating the murder of the twice dead detective. But it's only suppose to be for a short time while a replacement is found. It's the usual sort of confusion to be found in Aberdeen. Though things turn dark and nasty as McRae finds that most of the cases are somehow connected.

All the usual characters are back but there is a lack of clarity at times with this novel as a change of page or paragraph suddenly has a jump in the thought process, like a record on the turn table being knocked. It's still an enjoyable read even though it lacks the edge the earlier books in the series have.